Sir Ken Robinson was in Toronto at Crescent School as the keynote speaker for the 2010 SEAL Best Practices Conference for Canadian Private and Independent Schools. He entertained hundreds of teachers, students and parents with his humorous speech as he discussed the importance of creativity and schools.
Many of us have seen the TED Talks or YouTube video clips of Sir Ken Robinson speak about creativity and the challenges of changing education to value creativity as much as literacy. If you haven’t, take some time and watch a couple of them. He’s got some excellent insights and ideas on the role of creativity in the classroom.
Top 4 points of discussion “Out of this world: Learning to be Creative” :
1. Schools need to stop thinking of subjects as Useful (math, science, english) and Useless (humanities, arts, phys-ed).
2. Reforming schools is not the solution. We need to transform schools from mass transport to individualized attention.
3. Human talent is wonderfully diverse, however in education we often have a narrow view of talent.
4. Students are not either “creative” or “intelligent”, both are integral components to each other.
Agnes Stawicki
Agnes is the Managing Editor, Special Projects at Our Kids Media. We invite you to subscribe to our Our Kids Newsletter for Parents.
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